{"id":793428,"date":"2026-10-06T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793428\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:14:09","slug":"race-to-save-rare-south-west-recordings-before-they-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793428\/","title":{"rendered":"Race to save rare South West recordings before they vanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Berry himself used his collection of recorded interviews to write a PhD and a book on how people learn to become musicians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of his interviews was with Arthur Parkman, who ran a rock night at Bristol&#8217;s Colston Hall in the early 1960s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the recording, Parkman laments the fact he turned down the chance to book a then-unknown band from Liverpool for \u00a3100. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The band, called The Beatles, went on to enjoy a successful career in music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current collection could take another three years to fully digitise, although Walker said archivists would still welcome approaches from people with historically significant recordings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Archives are always interested in what material is out there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would recommend people approach their local archives in the first instance and speak to them about whether it&#8217;s of interest and relevance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berry himself used his collection of recorded interviews to write a PhD and a book on how people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}